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Meanings of phonograph in English

Portuguese
toca-discos
Catalan
tocadiscs
Spanish
tocadiscos
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A device that plays the sound stored on a gramophone record.

toca-discos
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Examples for "gramophone"
Examples for "gramophone"
1
I'd love to see your place, and I could bring my gramophone.
East of the sun
2
Then it was that the surmise about the gramophone recurred to me.
Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales
3
Onlookers can take home a 'hidden' gramophone if they can find it.
Radio NZ
4
But perhaps Kringström was in his soundproof room listening to gramophone records?
Shadows in the twilight
5
The clever footman started the gramophone, and Lady Queenie began to dance.
The Pretty Lady
1
Does this thing work? He lifted the plastic cover over the turntable.
Four dukes and a devil
2
He stepped back into the turntable room to leave through the tunnel.
Carte Blanche
3
Henry's microphone stands beside a table mounted with his speakers and turntable.
Black house
4
The whole set consists of a receiver, amp, turntable, and bookshelf speakers.
Kafka on the Shore
5
A final pivot on the turntable reveals the tail of the car.
Wired
1
The recorded voice ceased; for a moment the record player hummed voicelessly.
Little Fuzzy
2
The last mass-market record player was made more than a generation ago.
The Irish Times
3
Unfortunately my record player is kaput so I haven't tested these features.
Wired
4
To you and me, it's a record player with a USB plug.
Wired
5
I walked over to the record player and turned off something raucous.
One night stands & lost weekends
Usage of phonograph in English
1
He wanted me to bring him phonograph records and enclosed a list.
A Farewell to Arms
2
It was in 1877 that Thomas Alva Edison completed the first phonograph.
The Age of Invention: A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest
3
There were a player-piano and a fine phonograph in the big drawing-room.
Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch; Or, The Old Mexican's Treasure
4
They are all given on one of the cylinders of the phonograph:-
Contribution to Passamaquoddy Folk-Lore
5
Between the fireplace and the phonograph table is a stand for newspapers.
Pygmalion
6
He took the record home and put it on his own phonograph.
The new yorker
7
Edison's first model of the phonograph is shown in the following illustration.
Edison: His Life and Inventions
8
He is able to store and preserve his voice in a phonograph.
Foundations of World Unity
9
But, look you, the very next day the carriers brought the phonograph.
The Eternal City
10
Not long ago in our home we came across a long-unused phonograph.
And Judas Iscariot / Together with other evangelistic addresses
11
There was fishing-tackle in profusion, and a battered phonograph on a table.
I've Married Marjorie
12
Noted for inventing, among other things, the phonograph and the incandescent bulb.
The Civilization of Illiteracy
13
The phonograph went off into an inarticulate whirr of its own machinery.
Hugo: A Fantasia on Modern Themes
14
We have had a most amusing time with the two phonograph chaps.
Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis
15
Somewhere across the street a phonograph started blaring out a jazz piece.
Spring Street / A Story of Los Angeles
16
The Internationale had become blurred and discordant, like a bad phonograph record.
The Wrong Twin
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Spanish
tocadiscos
Phonograph through the time
Phonograph across language varieties
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